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Tag Archives: San Diego
End of Month View: November 30, 2014
My thanks to Helen Johnstone for her invitation to share what is happening in our gardens at the end of each month. I just returned from a Thanksgiving visit with my daughter and her family in San Diego. What should I … Continue reading
Posted in End of the Month View, Gardening
Tagged Asarum canadense, Blushing Bride hydrangea, camellia Debutante, Camellia japonica, Camellia japonica Governor Mouton, Carolina jessamine, End of the Month View, Euphorbia martini 'Ascot Rainbow', garden, Gelsimium sempervirens, Helen Johnstone, Nandina domestica Gulfstream, oak, Osage crape myrtle, pansies, San Diego, wild ginger
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California Report 3 (a bit delayed)
Father-daughter projects are among the delightful things I do on my visits with my daughter and her family in San Diego. Mary Shannon, my very creative daughter, must spend the months when we are not there thinking up fun projects for us to do … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged hanging gardens, herb garden, Mary Shannon, San Diego, succulents
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California Report 2
Here is Report # 2 about garden related memories of my California visit. My youngest daughter who lives in San Diego is an art teacher K-8 at a charter school there. From her earliest days Mary Shannon has been a collector of “stuff” … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Nature
Tagged California, charter school, craft projects, crafts, garden crafts, Mary Shannon, recycling, repurposing, San Diego, wall hangings
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California Report 1
Here begins a series of reports on garden related memories from our recent San Diego visit with my daughter and her family. My art teacher daughter took me to the Spanish Village Art Center in Balboa Park to invite me to select a … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged Balboa Park, garden whimsy, Mary Shannon, San Diego, Spanish Village Art Center, totem
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Two Weeks Without the Garden
My “flower arranger” and I have been away for several weeks, one with dear friends at Topsail Beach in North Carolina and one with our daughter and granddaughter in San Diego. (More about San Diego in future posts) My local … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged Anthony Waterer, Anthony Waterer spirea, Becky daisy, bird feeders, birds, clematis General Sikorski, coneflower, Encore azalea, General Sikorski, Knockout Rose, liriope, liriope muscarii variegata, mandevilla, mandevilla vine, North Carolina, Phlox Flame Lilac, phlox paniculata, San Diego, Topsail Beach
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A Walk in the Garden 